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3232HCL announce PartnerConnect Programhttp://socialshazza.com/hcl-announce-partner-connect-pgm/
http://socialshazza.com/hcl-announce-partner-connect-pgm/#respondThu, 13 Dec 2018 12:07:57 +0000http://socialshazza.com/?p=2590In the midst of all the news (or non news as they can’t really talk too much about the deal) of the HCL acquisition of ICS from IBM, the awesome people at HCL have announced the HCL PartnerConnect program. Registration will be open in January. A quote from the announcement “HCL will continue the critical …

]]>In the midst of all the news (or non news as they can’t really talk too much about the deal) of the HCL acquisition of ICS from IBM, the awesome people at HCL have announced the HCL PartnerConnect program. Registration will be open in January.

A quote from the announcement “HCL will continue the critical partner ecosystem model. We believe that all our product groups rely on highly technical experienced partners with great market presence.”

Partners have always been a massive part of the Collaboration Solutions ecosystem and this is great news that HCL are going to carry this on. Looking forward to to finding out more about this when registration opens.

]]>http://socialshazza.com/hcl-announce-partner-connect-pgm/feed/0IBM & HCL deal updatehttp://socialshazza.com/ibm-hcl-deal-update/
http://socialshazza.com/ibm-hcl-deal-update/#respondMon, 10 Dec 2018 08:45:48 +0000http://socialshazza.com/?p=2584Further to the news flash of the IBM & HCL deal last week – listen in on a video interview with HCL’s C Vijayakumar, Prateek Aggarwal & Darren Oberst on why this is a great deal for HCL, customers and partners. There is an annoying 30 second advert at the begining of the clip

Further to the news flash of the IBM & HCL deal last week – listen in on a video interview with HCL’s C Vijayakumar, Prateek Aggarwal & Darren Oberst on why this is a great deal for HCL, customers and partners.

]]>http://socialshazza.com/ibm-hcl-deal-update/feed/0HCL to acquire key IBM softwarehttp://socialshazza.com/hcl-to-acquire-key-ibm-software/
http://socialshazza.com/hcl-to-acquire-key-ibm-software/#respondFri, 07 Dec 2018 11:43:12 +0000http://socialshazza.com/?p=2571I woke up to the news that HCL tech are going to acquire select IBM software products – This is big news IBM already had a partnership with HCL where they would develop the code for IBM – Notes and Domino were among this group.HCL have injected a massive amount of enthusiasm with thier aggressive …

I woke up to the news that HCL tech are going to acquire select IBM software products – This is big news

IBM already had a partnership with HCL where they would develop the code for IBM – Notes and Domino were among this group.HCL have injected a massive amount of enthusiasm with thier aggressive development plans and release cycle for Notes/Domino which has given the Community a shot in the arm that it needed.But the news was trickling out slowly and a lot of Domino customers are already moving mail off the platform – HCL are not backwards in coming forwards and they have budget to market – ICS was a tiny fish in a very big IBM pond so now it may get the attention it deserves.

This deal is still ongoing and may not be completed until mid 2019 and is subject to change, but these are the solutions on the table

Appscan for secure application development

BigFix for secure device management

Unica (on-premise) for marketing automation

Commerce (on-premise) for omni-channel eCommerce

Portal (on-premise) for digital experience

Notes & Domino for email and low-code rapid application development

Connections for workstream collaboration.

Of course there was already a partnership set up for some of these products, when the deal goes through these will be HCL products not IBMs.

I am super excited for this .. all of the tech I have worked with over the last 20 years from an IBM standpoint is in this list – I am especially excited about the future of Commerce. I spend 8 happy years as a WebSphere Commerce admin and consultant and it is still my favourite product to work with (I may need to brush up on some commerce skills now) .. We have already seen the possitive impact of HCL working with Notes and Domino and the new products they are spinning out of it (HCL Places being one of them). I have high hopes for Connections, Commerce and Portal – I am really looking forward to seeing what the furture will hold.

]]>http://socialshazza.com/hcl-to-acquire-key-ibm-software/feed/0It’s been a little quiethttp://socialshazza.com/its-been-a-little-quiet/
http://socialshazza.com/its-been-a-little-quiet/#respondWed, 05 Dec 2018 11:40:28 +0000http://socialshazza.com/?p=2524I have been a little quiet of late .. this is mostly due to losing my dad back in October. I want to thank everyone for all the support, for the hugs and the tears. I really do have the best group of friends who can help me get through the worst of times. My …

]]>I have been a little quiet of late .. this is mostly due to losing my dad back in October.
I want to thank everyone for all the support, for the hugs and the tears. I really do have the best group of friends who can help me get through the worst of times.
My dad is awesome, we almost shared a birthday and he will always be a massive part of me. He taught me to fight for what I believed in, my work ethic, to teach myself and my love of all things tech – he will always be my hero and I am missing a part of me now he is gone.

I had some time off and have been busy with some exciting new challanges which I hope to blog about soon. I have been to another conference and I am about to head off to the BCC office in Germany for a week – So its back to normal.
Hope you have enjoyed the break from me – as I am back with a vengance and will be back up to speed with my sharing and blogging.

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http://socialshazza.com/social-connections-round-up/#respondWed, 17 Oct 2018 15:03:30 +0000http://socialshazza.com/?p=2203So a quick round up of #soccnx Connections isn’t dead.. Long live Connections. And although the emphasis recently has been on the Domino 10 there is lots of work in the Connections space happening. IBM are planning on releasing CRs instead of big releases. The plan is twice a year for on prem and up …

]]>So a quick round up of #soccnx
Connections isn’t dead.. Long live Connections. And although the emphasis recently has been on the Domino 10 there is lots of work in the Connections space happening.

IBM are planning on releasing CRs instead of big releases. The plan is twice a year for on prem and up to quarterly, as most customers find it way easier to implement a fixpack change than a full migration/update to a new version. This is a great idea and I do agree that it’s the best way forward.

Connections customizer is the way to go for changing things – look and feel, functionality and it is possible to make huge changes without touching the underlying code – but its Linux only same as the component pack (type ahead, orient me and elastic search) – and an extra box (or 2) for windows customers will be required. It is very powerful and although I was sceptical to begin with I agree this is the way to go. It may involve some extra skills being required for Connections admins and a bit of sell to get the extra hardware, but worth it.

No news on docs, really but CR3 if3 of docs is the latest and it will be updated in the same way as connections.

Connections 6 CR3 has a bunch of cool changes for the look and feel including extra community file views and some cool visualisation features – this will be tested as soon as i get a chance.

Lots of emphasis on using the component pack (Linux only as above) but this has replaced the pink vision previously.

Other news – the awesome guys at ISW have a new version of boards coming – this quarter for cloud, next quarter for on prem – which includes new views for boards including a calander view. Can’t wait to see this.

Ephox is now Tiny not as in small as in the tiny editor. New versions of textbox.io and the tiny editor will be available soon for Connections and other Web apps – exciting times & the aussie party is back at Think

The guys at AppFusions have a great set of tools for integrating teams that work in. Connections and Office365 – I want to give this a try as I can see many customers that could benefit. Hogne gave a great presentation on this which I will share the slides from.

So all in all its been great.. The community is thriving.. Connections is alive and kicking and long may it continue

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]]>http://socialshazza.com/connections-adoption-full-list-of-videos/feed/0Connections Adoption Month – midway updatehttp://socialshazza.com/connections-adoption-month-midway-update/
http://socialshazza.com/connections-adoption-month-midway-update/#respondThu, 19 Jul 2018 15:17:12 +0000http://socialshazza.com/?p=2189Connections Adoption Month – midway update So we are half of the way though Connections Adoptions month (july 2018) and if you have been following the IBM_ICSsupport twitter account, you will have noticed some videos and tips these have also been posted over on the Connections Cloud Collaboration blog. These videos are between 1 and 2 …

Connections Adoption Month – midway update

So we are half of the way though Connections Adoptions month (july 2018) and if you have been following the IBM_ICSsupport twitter account, you will have noticed some videos and tips these have also been posted over on the Connections Cloud Collaboration blog.

These videos are between 1 and 2 mins each and are bite size chunks on the 12 Winning social habbits with IBM Connections. I have collated these videos into a list (which I will append with all of the videos once they are published) and any of the other social posts around this subject.

The videos are great ways of introducing users on how IBM Connections can help with their day to day tasks. Personally I spend a lot of time in IBM Connections, the internal BCC one, Customer Connections systems, IBM in the Cloud (NA and CE Connections Cloud), the ICON UK Cloud Connections – I use connections a lot! There are so many times that we have shown how doing some of these simple tasks can help make people more productive – there has been many “AHA!” moments

Grab the videos, share the images (in a number of langages) and get your users engaging .. If you think there are languages missing let us know and we can ask IBM to translate the graphics.

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]]>http://socialshazza.com/connections-adoption-month-midway-update/feed/0It’s IBM Connections Adoption Month woo hoohttp://socialshazza.com/its-ibm-connections-adoption-month-woo-hoo/
http://socialshazza.com/its-ibm-connections-adoption-month-woo-hoo/#respondTue, 03 Jul 2018 09:36:53 +0000http://socialshazza.com/?p=2184I have been a little quiet on the blog as I have been working on a number of Connections related projects and today I see that IBM have designated July as IBM Connections Adoptions month. You can read a brief post about it here. IBM have produced a fantastic info graphic – (the link to …

]]>I have been a little quiet on the blog as I have been working on a number of Connections related projects and today I see that IBM have designated July as IBM Connections Adoptions month. You can read a brief post about it here.

IBM have produced a fantastic info graphic – (the link to download the large PDF is attached to the image) – we winning social habbits with IBM Connecitons

I have written about this over on the BCC blog as we have lots of articles to help with adoption and offer connections services.

I LOVE IBM Connections – and have done since it was first thrown in my direction as “you know about that WebSphere stuff” almost 10 years ago now. I use connections every day, my customers love it and so do our ICS community .. lets lead the way with showing this awesome software some love and helping people get stuff done.

]]>http://socialshazza.com/its-ibm-connections-adoption-month-woo-hoo/feed/0Engage is next week!http://socialshazza.com/engage-is-next-week/
http://socialshazza.com/engage-is-next-week/#respondWed, 16 May 2018 12:53:14 +0000http://socialshazza.com/?p=2176It has come around really quickly – it feels like only a few days ago that we were at Think or Social Connections 13, but It is that time of year again and Engage is almost upon us. On Tuesday & Wednesday 22-23 May approx 400 people will be setting sail on the SS Rotterdam …

]]>http://socialshazza.com/engage-is-next-week/feed/0GDPR and IBM Connections / Docs On-Premhttp://socialshazza.com/gdpr-and-ibm-connections-docs-on-prem/
http://socialshazza.com/gdpr-and-ibm-connections-docs-on-prem/#respondFri, 11 May 2018 09:23:39 +0000http://socialshazza.com/?p=2171At IBM Think back in March, the Connections Offering Management team promised us some information to help with GDPR compliency. The Connections Cloud information has been available for a while and the On-Premises docuemtation was on the way. Today my friend and fellow IBM Champion Roberto alerted me to the technotes that are available. IBM …

]]>At IBM Think back in March, the Connections Offering Management team promised us some information to help with GDPR compliency. The Connections Cloud information has been available for a while and the On-Premises docuemtation was on the way.

Today my friend and fellow IBM Champion Roberto alerted me to the technotes that are available.

There is a new section in each of the knowledgebases entitled Managing personal data in accordance with GDPR – see here for Connections and here for Docs (note the docs section mostly points to the Connections KB).

The technotes refer to a number of standard tasks that should be configured as part of the install and configuration process – such as using SSL for HTTP traffic, disabling anonymous access etc.

I am sure that this information will evolve as time goes on, but its a great start.